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Questions tagged [backintime]

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Run backup on HD plugged with systemd

When I plug a HD via USB, it should a) mount it b) run my backup script. What I currently have is backintime.service [Unit] Description="Runs backintime to backup." [Service] User=user ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-inhibit --what=sleep --why="Backup"…
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rsync mkstemp failed: Invalid argument (22) with USB flash drive

I use "Back In Time" which is nothing more than a front end GUI to rsync version 3.0.9 protocol version 30. I'm running ubuntu 12.04. My backup device is a locally mounted USB flash stick/drive formatted as ext2. It gives me numerous errors…
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Do I need to run BackInTime as root?

Just trying out BackInTime, not running as root, and when I've completed the initial configuration of settings I hit OK and... nothing happens. I've got my destination base set to a dedicated partition, also used by Timeshift, at /mnt/backup. I…
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rsync - specify negative exclusion (not inclusion)

I'm trying to tell rsync to ONLY include .org (or better yet, .org AND .py files). However, I have to do this through the --exclude= option, not the --include= option. Reason: I'm using BackInTime and want to make a backup config that only include…
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How can I reduce the size of my backintime snapshots?

I'm using backintime to create versioned backups of my root partition, and I would ideally like it to be making these snapshots quite often, daily if possible. However each snapshot at the moment is over 500MB after only a day of no actual activity!…
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How to restore permissions with BackInTime/rsync?

Apparently BackInTime, which uses rsync, doesn't just restore permissions when restoring files but also saves them separately to the data. Is it possible to restore permissions of specific directories / files only? I don't want to restore any files…
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Partial restore with Back In Time

I'm trying different backup methods for my Linux machine. Came across Back In Time, and I like it, but: Is there a way to restore just some of the backed up files/dirs? Say I have selected dirs */A/, */B/ and */C/. The default restore option would…
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Anacron kills children of my task

I wanted to set up an anacron task to run a backintime backup once a day (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS). If you schedule this using the backintime GUI, the normal crontab is being used, but for my use case this is not suitable: I usually have my computer on…
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How to find out what's taking the longest time during a backup with rsync?

I'd like to find out which parts of a frequent backup (with only few changes in between) take the longest to reduce the time needed for it and reduce the I/O stream. I'm using backintime (BiT) for the backup on my Debian10/KDE machine. I think…
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backintime: make several profiles incremental to one?

I have a rather technical question concerning Back In Time. I'm currently trying to work out the gory details about how to keep an incrementally updated, rolling mirror-backup of a given location (call it "myFolderX") in an external drive. Gory…
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How do I perform a nearly "full system" backup on Debian Stretch using rsync?

I have compiled and installed Back In Time to perform automated, full, system backups of my desktop computer running Debian Stretch (kernel 4.90.0-8-amd64). Back In Time uses rsync under the hood. When I run a full system backup after clicking the…
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How to create a new BackInTime backup update after moving files/directories without deleting the old backup first?

So my situation is as follows: I'm using BackInTime (which uses rsync) to run full, incremental backups of my 3 TB drive to another 3 TB drive. I've done such a full backup once and have around 100GB of free storage space on the backup drive. Now I…
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Back In Time backup not starting via anacron because of "Can't open timestamp file for job…"

Back In Time is set up to start backups daily as soon as the external disk got connected. This results in a udev rule which starts anacron with a config file generated by Back In Time. Unfortunately the backups do not run, as anacron always throws…
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Restore Back In Time From Ubuntu To Debian

I used Back In Time (BIT) to back up my data to an external USB drive on Ubuntu 12.04. After problems with Ubuntu I made a fresh install of Debian 8.3. In Debian I have installed BIT and can see the USB drive. However, BIT cannot see the old…
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Back In Time - Program: failed: Invalid argument (22)

I'm trying to backup my computer files on an external hard drive using the "Back In Time" program for linux, but after the backup finishes, it says that the backup has errors. When I click on the View Last Log button, to see the errors, it shows me…
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